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Old 11-09-2006, 11:43 PM
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Originally Posted by fkshiu View Post
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CaribSea got busted for illegally importing 42,000 lbs. of LR from Haiti contrary to CITES (an entire container load).

They were fined a total of about $35,000 and put on probation. The rock went to some research institute.

Makes you wonder where they get all that nice sand the company packages up and sell for a ransom from . . .
They get it mostly from the aragonite mine in the Bahamas:
http://www.dredge.com/casestudies/dred2-08.htm

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